Chicago Tribune, BGA win Pulitzer Prize for local reporting
Cecilia Reyes of the Chicago Tribune reacts as she and Madison Hopkins of the Better Government Association, not pictured, win the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting at the Tribune's Freedom Center in Chicago on May 9, 2022.
The Tribune and the BGA joined forces on the project in November 2019. In March, the pandemic hit, Reyes was assigned to cover breaking news and the project was essentially put on hold until fall 2020. Reyes and Hopkins’ work revealed that at least 61 men, women and children died in fires after Chicago officials had been warned — often repeatedly — of major fire safety issues in the buildings where they lived. The majority of the victims were Black. Many were children.
“These landlords should not be able to rent, buy, do anything unless everything is up to par,” Coleman told the reporters. “There should be no exceptions for anyone, not for the state and not for the landlord. You are putting somebody else’s lives in danger, period.” To identify more effective potential fixes for Chicago’s failures, the reporters looked at building safety practices in the nation’s 20 most populated cities.
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